Dominant
Dominant , adjective
[Latin dominans, -antis, present participle of dominari: compare French dominant. See Dominate.]
Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling; predominant; as, the dominant party, church, spirit, power.
The member of a dominant race is, in his dealings with the subject race, seldom indeed fraudulent,... but imperious, insolent, and cruel.
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Dominant estate or Dominant tenement (Law) , the estate to which a servitude or easement is due from another estate, the estate over which the servitude extends being called the servient estate or tenement. — Bouvier
Dominant owner (Law) , one who owns lands on which there is an easement owned by another.
Dominant , noun
(Music) The fifth tone of the scale; thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on.
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Dominant chord (Music) , the chord based upon the dominant.